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Sword Art Online - Volume 1: Aincrad Prologue Prologue A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky. That was all this world was. It took a vagarious group of craftsmen one month to survey the place; the diameter of the base floor was about 10 kilometers -- large enough to fit the entirety of Setagaya-ku within. Above, there were 100 floors stacking straight upwards; its sheer size was unbelievable. It was impossible to even guess how much data it consisted of. Inside, there were a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests and plains, and even lakes. Only one stairway linked each floor to another, and the stairways existed in dungeons where large numbers of monsters roamed; so discovering and getting through was no easy matter. However, once someone made a breakthrough and arrived at a city of the upper floor, the Teleport Gates there and of every cities in the lower floors would be connected making it possible for anyone to move freely through these levels. With these conditions, the huge castle had been steadily conquered for two years. The current front line is the 74th floor. The name of the castle was Aincrad, a world of battles with swords that continued floating and had engulfed approximately six thousand people. Otherwise known as. . Sword Art Online Kawahara Reki Page 8 Sword Art Online - Volume 1: Aincrad Chapter 1 Chapter 1 A grey sword cut my shoulder. The thin line at the top left corner of my field of vision reduced slightly. At the same time a cold hand passed over my heart. The blue line--called the "HP bar"--is a visual rendering of my life force. There was still a little over 80 percent left. No, this phrase isn't appropriate enough. Right now, I was about 20 percent closer to death. I dashed backwards before the enemy's sword even began its attacking motion. "Haaa..." I forced a huge breath to steady myself. The body in this world didn't need oxygen; but the body on the other side, or rather the body lying down in the real world, would be breathing heavily. My limp hands would be soaked with sweat, and my heartbeat would be off the charts. Of course. Even if everything that I see right now is nothing more than a rendering of a 3D virtual reality, and the bar being reduced was nothing more than a bunch of numbers that showed my hit points, the fact that I was fighting for my life didn't change. When you think about it like that, this fight is extremely unfair. That's because the enemy in front of me -- a humanoid with dully shining arms covered in dark green scales along with a lizard's head and tail--was not a human, nor was it really alive. It was a digital lump that the system would replace however many times it was killed. Kawahara Reki Page 9

Document Outline

Sword Art Online 001 - Aincrad

Front Cover

001 Sword Art Online - Aincrad

"Our shop's motto is to buy cheap and sell cheap."

"...I'm going to kill you... I'll definitely kill you...."

"Fight with me, if you win, Asuna can go with you but if you lose,"

"D,don't ...look over here..."

Gargantuan Game Castle - Aincrad

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Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 16.5

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Author's Notes

References

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Dialogue References

Hey, Kirito. Our shops motto is to buy cheap and sell cheap,Ў

Kirito-kun.͎

What͐s up, Asuna? For you to be coming to such a rubbish heap likethis.

΍DDonÐt kid with me!! Do you think a pathetic player like you canprotect Asuna-sama!!